Adaptation to marginal habitats at species range-limits has often been associated with parthenogenetic reproduction in terrestrial animals and plants. Laboratory observations have shown that brown algae exhibit a high propensity for parthenogenesis by various mechanisms. The kelp Laminaria digitata is an important component of the ecosystem in Northern European rocky intertidal habitats. We stu...

OBJECTIVES The paper presents data on the two problems of misconduct and marginality in management, business and economics (MBE) journals and their practices to combat these problems. DESIGN Data was collected in three phases. First, all publicly retracted papers in MBE journals were identified through keywords searches in 7 major databases (n = 1329 journals). Second, a focused survey was di...

1. This study utilizes a unique data set covering over 19 000 georeferenced records of species presence collected between 1993 and 2008, to explore the distribution and habitat selectivity of an assemblage of 26 carnivore species in the Serengeti-Ngorongoro landscape in northern Tanzania. 2. Two species, the large-spotted genet and the bushy-tailed mongoose, were documented for the first time w...

Ensemble forecasting is advocated as a way of reducing uncertainty in species distribution modeling (SDM). This is because it is expected to balance accuracy and robustness of SDM models. However, there are little available data regarding the spatial similarity of the combined distribution maps generated by different consensus approaches. Here, using eight niche-based models, nine split-sample ...

This report presents the preliminary results of ‘‘IN or OUT’’ Project, a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort which aims to investigate social exclusion, marginality and adoption anomalous funerary rites in late prehistoric Italy. In particular, this contribution explores incidence meaning practices ritual marginalisation deviancy region Veneto between Bronze Age early Iron period.

Aim The centre–periphery hypothesis predicts that habitat suitability will decrease at the edge of a species’ range, pattern often questioned by empirical data. Here we explore if decreases southwards and shapes abundance distribution rear populations forest birds within restricted geographical setting south-western Palaearctic. We also test endemic to area fit more poorly latitudinal in due pu...